Originally Posted by
SLXOwft
.N_A_B, I did wonder if you were being a bit disingenuous about the Pompey dock wall: Daring and Dragon are in refit, Lancaster is the forward deployed ship, Iron Duck is just out of LIFEX, Argyll is in LIFEX and Westminster should be in LIFEX. I agree 59% availiblity is pretty good. Regarding the crewing I thought at least Lancaster of the T23s and some of the T45s have Port and Starboard crews (and two captains)?.
It's not so long ago - seven years - that five of six T45 were alongside for most of the year, plus at least a couple of T23. You don't see that today.
AFAIK there's only Lancaster and the MCMV in Surflot that operate dual crews. The point wrt crewing was more about pinch point gapping preventing ships going to sea, which was an issue not too long ago.